Airbus in Alabama




(Mobile, Alabama) A new Airbus manufacturing facility expects to create at least 1,000 jobs.

Airbus will announce Monday in Mobile its plan to build A320 aircraft at the city's Brookley Aeroplex, opening a new era of jet production in Alabama and giving the European company its first production site on U.S. soil.

Multiple company, state and local officials confirmed that an agreement was in place to bring Airbus to Mobile, and that company president Fabrice Bregier was scheduled to announce the project at a 10 a.m. news conference at the Mobile Convention Center.

Details of the assembly plant -- including the construction timeline, projected employment and capital investment -- remained confidential. But a company source with direct knowledge of the project said it would produce the A320neo (the acronym stands for "new engine option"), a single-aisle jet designed to replace its best-selling A320 narrowbody.

Airbus will receive more than $100 million in tax breaks.